Tootfinder

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #DriveTime
Jungle Fire:
🎵 Comencemos (Let's Start)
#JungleFire
https://matasunarecords.bandcamp.com/track/jungle-fire-comencemos-renegades-of-jazz-remix
https://open.spotify.com/track/44kT6XsCkSGb9wNQ5qGXvg

How Israel's War Crimes are Coming Home
https://www.juancole.com/2026/05/israels-crimes-coming.html

It looks like here in California that the D-party is digging in on its plan to gift the governorship to a republican.
A bunch of D candidates need to drop out - TODAY.
But "identity politics" is, as usual, causing the D-party candidates to think in party-destructive, unity-destructive tribal or racial terms rather than asking what is good for everyone.
(And no - ranked choice voting systems would not fix this. Ranked choice systems could replace the "jungle …

California 'jungle' primary could hand governor's race to Republicans
Polling shows Republicans Steve Hilton and Chad Bianco leading the pack, while eight Democrats split the liberal vote.

Will Donald Trump Take the Planet Down With Him?
https://www.juancole.com/2026/03/donald-trump-planet.html

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #AfternoonShow
Jungle Brothers:
🎵 I’ll House You
#JungleBrothers
https://djkarpiok.bandcamp.com/album/jungle-brothers-ill-house-you-2-versions
https://open.spotify.com/track/51GEHfWZuwIg5XHY50XSyS

I don't go into DC all that regularly. This past week, taking Metro to the convention center for an event, was the first time I personally saw [and sneered at] any of the uselessly deployed National Guard members up close and in person.

RE: https://mastodon.social/@jeffjarvis/116493405173344148
Significantly for the worse

China's Surging Cleantech Exports are dethroning Oil
https://www.juancole.com/2026/04/surging-cleantech-dethroning.html

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #AfternoonShow
John Cale:
🎵 Dirtyass Rock 'n' Roll
#JohnCale

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #JazzTheatre
John Coltrane:
🎵 I Want to Talk About You
#JohnColtrane
https://johncoltrane.bandcamp.com/track/i-want-to-talk-about-you-2
https://open.spotify.com/track/0OeuAmskVe6Te9J7KkLsBs